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Speaker 2: I bought along my son Jonathan, who in the year
Speaker 2: two thousand.
Speaker 3: And one will be the same age as I am.
Speaker 2: Now maybe he will be better adjusted to this kind
Speaker 2: of world that you will will try to controy. The
Speaker 2: big difference when he grows up. In fact, if we
Speaker 2: wanted to wait for the year two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: is that he will have in his own house, not
Speaker 2: a good as big as this, but at least a
Speaker 2: console to which you can talk to his friendly local
Speaker 2: computer and get all the information meets for his everyday life,
Speaker 2: but his bank statements, the theater reservations, all the information
Speaker 2: you need in the course of fitting in a complex
Speaker 2: modern society.
Speaker 3: This will be in.
Speaker 2: A compact form.
Speaker 3: In his own house.
Speaker 2: He'll have a television screen like Bhaer and the keyboard,
Speaker 2: and he'll talk to the computer, get information from it,
Speaker 2: and he will take it as must ground as we
Speaker 2: take the telephone.
Speaker 4: K IF I am six forty is Later with Moe Kelly.
Speaker 4: That was the voice of Arthur C. Clark, my favorite
Speaker 4: science fiction writer ever. It was in nineteen seventy four
Speaker 4: and he was in the middle of an interview with
Speaker 4: ABC News that sound that you heard in the background
Speaker 4: with the big cabinets of tapes running of what used
Speaker 4: to be computers, and he was talking to a young
Speaker 4: child young by nineteen seventy four standards older than me,
Speaker 4: who would live in a world one day in which
Speaker 4: computers could fit on the size of a desk and
Speaker 4: we'd be able to talk to the computers and be
Speaker 4: able to do our banking and be able to communicate
Speaker 4: with each other. Hey, that'll never happen never, or at
Speaker 4: least Arthur C. Clark could foresee it in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 4: Here we are in twenty twenty five, and he couldn't
Speaker 4: have been more right. Marshall Collier, it's great to see you.
Speaker 4: And I wanted to use that as a lead in
Speaker 4: because as we talk about tech, it's nice to remember
Speaker 4: how far we've come.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's amazing. It is just amazing how far we've come.
Speaker 5: I mean you, I'm I'm sure you're old enough to
Speaker 5: remember Windows three one.
Speaker 3: Yes, I remember three point one.
Speaker 5: I remember returning Windows one point oh to the store
Speaker 5: and said, why would I need this?
Speaker 4: I just remember when I first saw Windows and I
Speaker 4: realized that, wait a minute, it looks a lot like
Speaker 4: my Apple two C.
Speaker 5: Yeah, didn't it, Yes, it did. Yeah, they had some
Speaker 5: discussions about that. But that's a whole other show. I
Speaker 5: got something for you today which blows me away. I've
Speaker 5: used a product from this company several years ago when
Speaker 5: I went to Alaska to Nowhere land north of the
Speaker 5: Arctic Circle. We were staying at a truck stop. The
Speaker 5: snow was twenty feet high, there were no connections, there
Speaker 5: was no running water.
Speaker 3: This was a vacation.
Speaker 6: I loved it, seriously.
Speaker 5: It was the best adventure, the best adventure Alaska in
Speaker 5: the winter. As long as you have the right clothes,
Speaker 5: not a problem. But I was very concerned about my internet,
Speaker 5: and I had an early version of this product. These
Speaker 5: people came out with a new product and because of
Speaker 5: the fire, you know, I was the North Reech earthquake
Speaker 5: was the worst thing that ever happened to me. Now
Speaker 5: we had these horrible fires, which I think were even
Speaker 5: worse with the destruction, and you think about you didn't
Speaker 5: have Wi Fi.
Speaker 6: How could you connect?
Speaker 5: And we've talked about this why people have landlines, Because
Speaker 5: landlines are often the first to be reconnected. Yes, you
Speaker 5: know so, but now they're reconnecting the Wi Fi and
Speaker 5: the cellular signals. But the cellular signals, uh, you know,
Speaker 5: it takes a while. So found this product. I saw
Speaker 5: them at Cees.
Speaker 3: It's about the size of the phone.
Speaker 5: It's exactly the size of smaller than my phone. It's
Speaker 5: called the solst Go. I'm showing it to here. It's
Speaker 5: a small device. It's got three cables attached to it.
Speaker 4: It looks like an external battery that you put on
Speaker 4: your phone.
Speaker 5: Maybe, well, funny you should say that, because it is
Speaker 5: a battery. It is a power bank. And we've talked
Speaker 5: about that. Eight thousand milliamp hours.
Speaker 3: That's a lot.
Speaker 6: That's a lot that can do two phones.
Speaker 3: Do you have? Most phones are like three point six
Speaker 3: or so.
Speaker 5: Right, so you don't have a problem if you're in
Speaker 5: a disaster, if you're in an earthquake, your phone has died,
Speaker 5: you can plug it in. It has three cables USBC, USBA.
Speaker 3: And lightning, yes, light cable for app.
Speaker 6: I always call it thunderbault.
Speaker 3: We know what you mean.
Speaker 6: It's an iPhone. But you have the three connectors.
Speaker 5: You can charge it easily on the side, simple and
Speaker 5: What it is is a hotspot, just like you could
Speaker 5: make your phone into a hotspot. Right, this is a
Speaker 5: power bank and a hotspot. You can put up to
Speaker 5: ten people on this device.
Speaker 4: In an emergency, I could be with a dead phone
Speaker 4: in a dead zone and be able to both charge
Speaker 4: my phone for at least three or four full charges,
Speaker 4: ten devices on it if need be, and also have
Speaker 4: some sort of signal. I can't say Wi Fi, but
Speaker 4: satellite signal, uh.
Speaker 5: No, it picks. They have deals right now. It's connected
Speaker 5: to AT and t okay. They have deals with the
Speaker 5: different companies and just like an mv and O, you know,
Speaker 5: like consumer cellular mobile. They make deals with the Google
Speaker 5: Fi right and Google Fi, and I don't know who
Speaker 5: they use. They usually don't talk about all that. But
Speaker 5: it can run ten devices all at once, simultaneously going
Speaker 5: to the internet. It has virtual SIM technology if you
Speaker 5: need to use that on your phone.
Speaker 4: That would be great in the event that let's say
Speaker 4: you are home. You have the generator for the house,
Speaker 4: but that could be used for all your devices and
Speaker 4: communication needs in a given.
Speaker 5: Modele as long as there's a signal somewhere. And I
Speaker 5: am telling you hand to God, folks. Really, I was
Speaker 5: in the middle of nowhere, there were moose near me.
Speaker 5: That was it, and I could get a signal on
Speaker 5: this company's earlier device. This is called the Solace sols Go.
Speaker 3: How much are we talking about ballpark?
Speaker 6: About one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's more than reasonable.
Speaker 5: And guess what it comes with one gig of data
Speaker 5: a month free for the rest of your life.
Speaker 4: And you're not going to be using one gig of
Speaker 4: data except for those extreme emergencies.
Speaker 5: If this is an emergency device or a great travel
Speaker 5: advice a device, I mean you go to another country.
Speaker 5: There are some people who honestly, the international plans when
Speaker 5: you travel can be ridiculous.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: The first thing you do see when you get off
Speaker 5: the plane in a foreign country is those kiosks to
Speaker 5: buy cards and SIM cards. Now there are eSIMs now,
Speaker 5: but I would not use a foreign e SIM in
Speaker 5: my phone.
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, that's part of the reason
Speaker 4: why I use Google five because I can use it
Speaker 4: internationally exactly.
Speaker 5: And I have a T mobile that comes with free international.
Speaker 5: And next week we'll be talking about the mvn os
Speaker 5: and e sims versus regular sims. But anyway, it's difficult
Speaker 5: in some countries to get connections, and once you have that,
Speaker 5: you can be connected. I just think aside from you know,
Speaker 5: think about it Wi Fi connectivity, it's called VSIM technology whatever.
Speaker 5: Charge your phones around one hundred dollars, I think, and
Speaker 5: the free data for life, free gigabyte per month.
Speaker 4: I always think about devices in terms of reliability. Can
Speaker 4: I use this in a pinch? Can I depend on it?
Speaker 4: Will I know that it's going to be there if
Speaker 4: there are extenuating circumstances like a disaster or a personal emergency.
Speaker 6: Like I told you, I can.
Speaker 5: My husband and I can both testify we have one
Speaker 5: of these. We have used it, We depended on it.
Speaker 5: There was no way else we were going to get
Speaker 5: a signal because.
Speaker 3: You only got one chance in emergency.
Speaker 6: In an emergency, especially.
Speaker 3: That, I gotta know, it's gotta work well.
Speaker 5: In the north Ridge quake, we had nothing. So but
Speaker 5: this will give you. Put it in your go bag,
Speaker 5: keep it there, and always have.
Speaker 3: It when we come back. Let's talk about a little
Speaker 3: bit of T Mobile and Starling. Can you do that
Speaker 3: for me?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: You bet all right?
Speaker 6: That won't be free.
Speaker 4: You got that right, it's Later with Mo Kelly. Marsha
Speaker 4: Coluer joins me in studio. Ka if I am six forty.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3: What's the easy way to get online? It's gotta be America.
Speaker 3: I'm line.
Speaker 6: I love hearing her.
Speaker 3: You've got three twenty four hour customer service. Everyone I
Speaker 3: know is on ALI.
Speaker 6: My favorite feature on AOL is dis messages.
Speaker 3: I feel real secure with AOLZ, with protal controls. I
Speaker 3: feel better about my kids being online. All easy, So
Speaker 3: weased to use No wonder it's number one, had four
Speaker 3: it's not number one anymore?
Speaker 4: Yeah, can if I am six forty, it's Later with
Speaker 4: mo Kelly. We all remember AOL.
Speaker 5: It's totally scary. Is I know people who still haven't
Speaker 5: at AOL dot com?
Speaker 3: You mean my mother?
Speaker 6: Oh? Really?
Speaker 2: My dad?
Speaker 6: Hot? Was that your mom? Hot chicken?
Speaker 2: Ale?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, no, that wasn't her. But she
Speaker 4: still uses AOL and I can't break her up.
Speaker 3: What were you going to say?
Speaker 4: Stepan, and some people have AOL account. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: like my dad. It is a generational thing for sure. Oh, gosh,
Speaker 4: maybe they were first introduced to the Internet and email.
Speaker 6: Well so was I.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but sure, this is your bread and butter.
Speaker 3: This is your life, sotile, this is your career.
Speaker 5: In many everybody I see who still has an Aol
Speaker 5: email address, please do yourself a favor. Gmail is free.
Speaker 5: Get a Gmail account, and don't put a silly name
Speaker 5: at the beginning. Try and use a format of your name.
Speaker 3: Look, it makes sense to you and me. It may
Speaker 3: even be common sense.
Speaker 4: I just know a lot of people that I still
Speaker 4: deal with have an Aol email address, and.
Speaker 6: There's a perception problem. There's a perception.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I'm very judgmental.
Speaker 4: If I see an AOL address, it's like you deserve
Speaker 4: some sort of Nigerian scammer to come get you using
Speaker 4: an Aol email address.
Speaker 3: Well, dare you?
Speaker 6: How about if you had a Starlink email.
Speaker 4: Address Starlink, I don't think I've met anyone with a
Speaker 4: star Link email address.
Speaker 6: Think you have, Well I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 6: because I don't have Starlink. But if that's your internet provider, maybe.
Speaker 3: It would make sense. They'd probably have something that would
Speaker 3: be kind of cool. But since you mentioned Starlink. We
Speaker 3: have a story to talk about.
Speaker 6: Funny how that happens.
Speaker 5: In July, T Mobile is going to launch commercial service
Speaker 5: for Starlink satellite phone service. It's going to be free
Speaker 5: for T Mobile customers on the Go five G Next
Speaker 5: plan and available for other customers for a monthly faith
Speaker 5: And we'll talk about that because other no matter who
Speaker 5: your provider is, you can buy satellite connection for your phone.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, because we've seen satellite phones
Speaker 4: depicted in movies and it was usually reserved for military
Speaker 4: or very very wealthy people. Why do you think other
Speaker 4: than just greed, traditional providers have not more quickly moved
Speaker 4: to offering satellite service.
Speaker 6: I think it's very expensive.
Speaker 5: I mean, let's face it, eline in my humble opinion,
Speaker 5: Yet they use launching those satellites as lessons learned. They
Speaker 5: learned so much from putting those satellites in orbit and
Speaker 5: the communications between satellite to satellite bouncing to Earth bouncing back.
Speaker 5: I mean, and to make it mobile for people's mobile
Speaker 5: homes and things like that. Yeah, I think you can't
Speaker 5: say that. You said this week that there are failed
Speaker 5: technologies which we never saw again, but that's not true.
Speaker 5: A lot of times those technologies are adopted into new
Speaker 5: technologies and are made even better. And that's why everything
Speaker 5: when it comes to technology and science, even the smallest
Speaker 5: discovery can be a big win when it becomes part
Speaker 5: of something bigger. But let me just tell you about this.
Speaker 5: If you'd like to try the starlink service, the beta
Speaker 5: phase is free to T Mobile customers, at and T
Speaker 5: and Verizon customers. Anybody can use it, probably Google five.
Speaker 5: It's a beta now. You get it free through July
Speaker 5: first or the July the month and until they start
Speaker 5: charging money for it. And if you want to go
Speaker 5: to sign up for it, you'll have to replay the podcast.
Speaker 5: If you don't get it first, go to www dot
Speaker 5: T dashmobile dot com, slash coverage slash Satellite dash phone
Speaker 5: dash service hash sign or number sign sign dash up
Speaker 5: dash Beta dash form.
Speaker 4: That will be in the podcast because I know you
Speaker 4: didn't get that the first time.
Speaker 6: To repeat that a couple times.
Speaker 5: Anyone on any carri carrier, no matter who your carrier is,
Speaker 5: you can sign up to join the beta test and
Speaker 5: get satellite powered messaging at no cost until July.
Speaker 6: And you're right, it's kind of like a big it's
Speaker 6: kind of cool.
Speaker 4: I guess how would you say, Let's say, I mean,
Speaker 4: with the exception of people who obviously live in more
Speaker 4: rural areas, more of out of the way areas, what
Speaker 4: would be some of the benefits of satellite coverage other
Speaker 4: than just knowing that wherever you are in the world,
Speaker 4: you're covered.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: Well, because for example, one of our listeners had emailed
Speaker 5: me and she had a daughter who goes hiking and
Speaker 5: they wanted to stay in touch and there was no
Speaker 5: signal out there. She just I turned her onto Google
Speaker 5: five and it worked. I mean, there is a signal
Speaker 5: for almost everyone in cities. It's the parts of the world,
Speaker 5: and it really is said. And by the way, talking
Speaker 5: earlier about the solst go that's four G LTE, why
Speaker 5: is it not five G because half of the world,
Speaker 5: I mean, that thing works in like one hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty countries. When it comes to internet connections, there are
Speaker 5: some companies just getting off of three G. You've got
Speaker 5: to realize not everybody is technologically advanced as are England
Speaker 5: and Europe. You know, there's a whole world out there.
Speaker 5: In the way we have first World and second and
Speaker 5: third world. We have the same as far as technology
Speaker 5: Elogy exactly. So for international travel, a four G which
Speaker 5: is backwardly compatible from five G, will be the best
Speaker 5: choice for you. If you have a five G and
Speaker 5: there's no five G signal.
Speaker 6: That can happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, most of the phones now I think will drop
Speaker 3: to four G.
Speaker 5: Though they will, they will. I noticed it at all,
Speaker 5: but most have been sitting right out there. I said, Oh,
Speaker 5: I have LTE.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: What happens? I said, And LTE used to be you
Speaker 3: know the thing.
Speaker 5: But anyway, it uses existing nineteen one hundred MEGAHERTZE cellular
Speaker 5: frequency bands, which is LTE band twenty five and four
Speaker 5: G transmission standards. Initially, it'll be just text messages and
Speaker 5: location information so you know, if you fall down a
Speaker 5: mountain you can use it. Eventually it will include voice calls,
Speaker 5: texts and images and data support for some applications. For
Speaker 5: T Mobile customers not on the plan fifteen dollars a
Speaker 5: month after the beta ends at and T and Verizon
Speaker 5: customers twenty dollars a month after the free beta ends,
Speaker 5: and early adopters ten dollars a month during the beta.
Speaker 4: But this could be game changing, especially if you live
Speaker 4: in a more remote area.
Speaker 5: Exactly exactly, we live in a city. I was in Texas.
Speaker 5: I was in Midland, Texas. Talk about Billy Bob Thharton and.
Speaker 3: This is I'm sorry. Landman was one of my favorite series.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you it was so accurate because I have
Speaker 5: been to Midland. My husband is from Midland. I know
Speaker 5: Midland that they to a tee and they got it right.
Speaker 5: I hope the world understands the people of Midland that
Speaker 5: you know. I heard people talk about, you know, how
Speaker 5: little money they must make. Are you kidding me? Someone
Speaker 5: who was in Dale position in Dale, he's the guy
Speaker 5: who the third guy who lives in the house, not
Speaker 5: the lawyer. He's making two hundred and some thousand dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he was just one of the guys on the line.
Speaker 5: I'll call her.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And Billy Bob Thornton until he got moved to president,
Speaker 5: he was making over three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: But a lot of stress and danger.
Speaker 6: Well danger is the name for a lot of people.
Speaker 6: They thrive on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I wanted to be a air traffic controller when I
Speaker 5: was a kid.
Speaker 6: I just didn't know where to go.
Speaker 3: Thanks to the Internet, now you know how to do it.
Speaker 5: It's not too late, it's too late, Okay, I don't
Speaker 5: think my heart could take it.
Speaker 4: Any Yeah, that's a whole difference conversation have Marshall Callyer.
Speaker 4: It's always great to see. Thank you for all your
Speaker 4: tech wisdom and insight.
Speaker 6: But we're gonna have fun next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't turn us down next week, imise not.
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